• Mar. 18, 2007
Bible Study
I have not written lately, so I thought I would. I really like the idea of a blog, but I keep forgetting I have one!
I have been thinking, about the purpose of my blog, and what I want to represent. I have all sorts of ideas flowing through my mind daily, but when I go to write it out, my mind goes blank.
I really want it to be a place where family and friends can keep up with me, so I suppose I will start out by just writing about what has been happening around here.
Right now, I am going to a chroniloigical Bible study that New Tribes Mission does. I have been learning soooo much through it! I can not believe how many lies I have believed about the Bible and God. It is giving me a firm foundation on who God is, his purpose for this planet and man.
It is causing me to see God in a different light, and man oh man, how wrong my perspective has been! The Bible study is in the home of vetern tribal missionaries, and they have been so helpful and loving, as they help me sort out all my questions, and wrong ideas about the Lord.
One thing that is really neat is that there is a 91 year old man that comes to the study. This is his third time through it, and he just loves it! He has trusted Christ as his Saviour, and he did that at 88 or 89 years old! WoW! Can you believe that? There is hope for our older people of coming to the know the Lord. Don't ever give up on them!
Well, I better run!
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• Aug. 15, 2006
A Good Deal
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• Aug. 14, 2006
Preschooling
This year I want to start some Preschooling with my dds. I really don't know where to start or begin either. Frankly, I am overwhelmed with all the info out there, and just trying to keep the house running smoothly. To actually sit and think about my plan of action, is when I fall asleep. There are somethings that I have done to get started.
First off, I bougt leap pads, Letter Factory DVD. This has really helped the girls learn to identify their letters, and some of the sounds. Lap Pad says that the letter "L" make the "ul" sound, which I am not sure that I like. When I ask her what letter an "L" word starts with, she doesn't know. For instance when I ask her what letter does the word "Little" start with, she gets confused.
Some other things I have bought are some work books at Wal-Mart, Flash Cards, M&M's counting book, and various other things. I just get overwhelmed even thinking about it now.
I am thinking of ordering the activity books from Rod and Staff for cutting, pasting and coloring. I also want to incorporate some of the Letter of the Week into some things. I also want to remain very relaxed, and easy going.
I think I am going to plan on starting Kindergarten with my oldest when she is six. So things right now will remain relaxed, but also have some plan so that I will actaully sit down and work on some concepts with dd. I think she is also ready, because she frequently tells me she wants to "go to school and sit still". She has even begun to write her name, on her own, without me pushing her at all.
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• Jun. 24, 2006
Testing Photos
I plan on blogging about my oldest's birthday party, but I wanted to test a photo to see if I am doing this right.
This is a photo from one of my daughter's first birthday.
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• May. 6, 2006
Candyland Crisis
The joys of motherhood, let me tell you! Last night my husband and I decided to tie some strings with our girls by playing a quick game of Candyland before bed.
Let me explain a bit about our almost four year old daughter. She is a pretty smart little cookie. She knows her colors and is starting to count pretty well, so this game is easy for her to understand. Our two year old daughter needs a bit of help. Usually I end up playing her turn for her.
Four year old daughter, LOVES the picture blocks in the game, especially the Ice Cream Princess. What little girl wouldn’t? So daughter’s main objective is acquiring those lovely little picture cards.
Ok. Back to the game: Four year old daughter gets the gum drop card, is elated, and moves ahead of everyone else. We are all having fun and enjoying ourselves until two year old daughter gets the Ice Cream Princess Card, which puts her towards the end of the game. Four year old IS NOT HAPPY. She just cannot understand why Two year old gets the Ice Cream card! Both my husband and I are trying to reprimand, calm her, and try not to laugh at the same time. I know we are wicked!
Two year old is just still enjoying herself.
Pretty soon, on my turn I obtain the peanut card. A whole other round of tears from four year old about not getting the Ice Cream card; we appease her by saying she can look at the card while we play.
Four year old soon gets the lollipop card, moving her ahead of me. This makes her happy until…
Two year old daughter wins. This is the very first time four year old daughter looses a game, and she actually understands that she has lost. Let me say she wasn’t happy! I tell her that it is a “just a game” and we should be happy that two year old one the game. I then tell her we can finish playing with just her, Daddy and I.
My husband turns lands him the candy cane card, and he has to go back almost to the beginning. Four year old daughter gets the ginger bread man card, which is just a couple of blocks from the start. She’s happy that she got another picture card…. Until, she sees on my turn that I am moving towards the candy castle and she just went away from it.
By this time, it was way past her bed time, and my husband and I are trying to act stern and not crack up at the same time to her reactions. Tears were just streaming down her face, and she was blubbering about the “Ice Cream Card” her sister winning, and other things we could not understand. We tell her that we cannot finish the game when she is acting like that. My husband promptly put the game away, and the girls to bed.
So, I suppose that daughter has a competitor’s spirit about her. What am I going to do? I remember being her age and caring less if I lost or not. I did enjoy winning, but I don’t remember getting that upset. Except maybe once when we were playing Monopoly. I was loosing BIG time, and I had only six dollars left to my name. My sister’s boyfriend (who I didn’t like) was provoking me about it: I believe I acted worse than my four year old did at her first loss of CandyLand.
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• Apr. 28, 2006
A Small victory and a Major Setback.
Well, I went grocery shopping yesterday. The small victory was, my menu was only about $89 including the things that I needed such as shaving cream, paper towels, toliet paper, etc.
However I spent waaaay more than that!
See, my husband wanted me to pick up a new C.D. player and one of those C.D's that only play the nature sounds. As I was shopping I found a white noise maker that was only $12 instead of buying the C.D. player and new C.D. which would of been $35. (So see I saved some money!
) I needed a new diaper bag for my ds, as the one that I had from dd had had it. I also got these cute little sun visors for my dds to paint with tulip paint. Of course I didn't have any tulip paint at home so I bought that too. That cost around $11. Then I needed (truely I did!) new blush because I had run out, and some matching T-Shirts for my girls so I can make matching culottes for them. And a few other minor purchases.
At the grocery store there was a great sale on boneless chicken breasts only $1.99 a lb, so I stocked up on those. That was a small victory.
Today I individually wrapped those chicken breasts so I can use them for casseroles, stir-fry, chicken salad etc.
Ok, I know I went way overboard on the other stuff; I don't know what came over me! I NEVER used to do that. I went bonkers!! I am the one that my husband has to talk into buying something because I want to save the money.
So the major setback was my impluse buying. Why oh why did I do that, I cannot tell. I must be sleep deprived because I didn't get an afternoon nap yesterday.
Another small victory happened this week. I started back to exercising after I had ds. I was getting really excited because I could feel those calories burning off of me. My clothing started to feel looser in places where I want it to feel lose, and I was sore. So when I got to our local supermarket that has an accurate scale, I was anxiously waiting to weigh myself, because I KNEW that I had lost weight! Well, I got on the scale, and saw the needle go up up up; I had gained 2 lbs!!!! I could not believe it. After all that exercising!
The week before I started to exercise I ate what ever I wanted, and lost two lbs. This is frustrating! So that was another small victory and a setback.
Well, back to the orginal thought of cutting back on my grocery bill and planning a menu. I am going to try to make a price book to help me keep my spending down. I have read about how to make these things, but I really can't remember how to do it. It seemed like an overwhelming project to me. If anyone is reading this blog, and you know of a way to make a simple price book please comment and let me know. I really need to win this battle of spending too much on groceries.
This leads me to another thought. Coupons. Coupons do not seem to work for me. I live in an area where there are no double coupons allowed, and the coupons that come in our paper are not for products that I use; with food anyway. I don't generally buy processed foods, and that is what the coupons seem to be for. I try to eat whole foods. I do buy some processed, but I am very picky about what I buy, and I never see coupons for those things either.
Well, I am off to work on a price book I suppose!
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• Apr. 26, 2006
Menu Planning
I am horrible at menu planning. I have been married for almost five years, and I still do not have a clue as to what I am doing when it comes to menu planning and grocery shopping. 
To make matters worse, is that I would like to save as much money as I can and eat as healthy as I can. Like, buying organic dairy products and organic fruits and veggies.
Every week I go over my allowed budget of food. I know if I could save more money on the groceries I would have some money left over to do something special with.
So this months plan is to come up with a healthy, cheap, 3 week menu rotation. I want to incorporate lots of veggies, whole grains, and beans. With a little bit of meat, and some pasta.
Pasta, that is another drawback. I don't want to buy white pasta, but it is sooo much cheaper! Whole grain pasta is a whole lot more expensive than white, yet it is way more healthy too. Same goes for milk, yogurt, apples, carrots etc.
I could also save tons of money by not buying convience foods. Like not buying pre washed and cut lettuce, or baby cut carrots, or chicken broth in the carton, spaghetti sauce, etc.
This goal is going to be a challange, especially with three children ages almost four and under. My concentration goes haywire when they are awake. Like right now. One is sitting on a stool next to me kicking the other one who is screaming the highest pitched scream right in my ear!
Now one is whining about something that I cannot understand. You get the picture. I have alot of work cut out for me, but I am going to do it by George! I MUST. I want to be get this conquered!
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• Apr. 25, 2006
Another attempt-Why I choose the name Joyful Mother
I started a blog once before, but I don't know what happened to it; I searched for my username and pass word and can't find it!
So here is another attempt to blog.
I choose the name Joyful Mother because Psalm 113:9 says,
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
I am not barren in the womb, but I was barren spirtiually and because of that it caused me to be a depressed mother. The reason I was barren spirtually was because I lacked the assurance of being truely born again. It was an intense battle of the mind as I sought the Lord to bring me His assurance. The answer was so simple it was starring me right in the face. However, the devil was blinding me to the simplicity of it, and for a good reason on his part. The devil wanted me to be a depressed and barren woman, so that I would be a horrible mother, so that my children wouldn't know the Lord themselves.
Jesus was faithful! As I studied and searched I found something out so awesome! Jesus' Work on the Cross is already finished there is nothing more for me to do but believe that he took care of everything in reference to my sin on the cross. God is satisified with the perfect saccrifice of Jesus, and I am satisified with that too! I am resting in Jesus' perfect work. I am not working to bring about this salvation, I am resting in the salvation that has already been provided by Jesus.
When I discovered this, that it was already finished, I believed God's Word, rested my soul in it, and sweet peace came to my Soul.
So Jesus has made this spiritually barren woman un barren, and now I am excited about keeping the house, and being a Joyful Mother.
The Lord gave me this verse when I was in such intense doubts. It was a promise that he spoke directly to my heart through his word, and I clung to it. Now it has been fulfilled, and that is why I choose the name Joyful Mother for my blog.
